My Wonderful Hard Working Husband

As you know, we are tirelessly trying to get our house ready to sell. We had a giant list (I'm not kidding...it was a full sheet of poster size paper) of things that needed to be accomplished before we could put the house on the market. Thanks to the hard work of my parents, we were able to knock a lot out one weekend in April and Mitch's dad spent a Saturday helping Mitch out. Since then, Mitch and I have been working when we can to get the rest finished. We are realizing it is very hard to do with a small child though. There were big things that we needed to hire someone to come and do - lay carpet in the office and paint the outside of the house. Mitch had been calling different people to try and get them lined up to do these things but has not had very good luck with getting anyone to call back or to show up when they said they would. Thanks to my dad, we were able to get a painter out to our house to give us an estimate but my dear husband was not willing to part with the amount of money that she was asking for. He decided he would rather paint the house himself. He has since changed his mind and is continuing his search for a reasonably cheap painter if anyone knows of one. On Saturday, we laid out the carpet to be sure it was going to fit in the office upstairs. While we were talking about what we were going to do, Mitch suggested just refinishing the hard wood floors that are in the room since he can't get anyone to come do the carpet. We decided that instead of paying someone to come lay carpet, we would spend the money to rent a sander and get supplies to make the floors look nice. Mitch had already done Drew's room so he knew what he was getting into. So, off to Home Depot we went Saturday night and rented a sander. (There's a whole other story in there. When we went to leave H.D. the truck wouldn't start and that started an hour long drama.) Once we finally got home, Mitch spent Saturday night and Sunday making the floors look BEAUTIFUL. It looks so much nicer than carpet. He does such good work!!!! I love that everything in our house looks nice because of us and our families. I think it makes it that much better.